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So here it is, as promised. My last mix in the foreseeable future. Join inn on a trip through the ages and various sound-spaces in gentle timbres and melodies of erratic beauty. Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to...
For my final Patreon post of August I am looking at something a bit different, a short story. Whilst the title implies it was written by, crime writer and poet, Nicholas Blake, it was in fact written by J. Maclaren-Ross, whose intention...
There’s a limit to characters in titles on many platforms. This name is incredibly long. YouTube allows 100 characters, and so stuff has to be abbreviated or just truncated. It’s a pain since you want people looking for a thing to be...
Below Deck Med bosun Nathan Gallagher is in an Australian court next week—and is also wanted by an Irish court over a 2022 assault.
Whenever you watch a video on YouTube now, you will likely get an advert for a scammy product. In the past few weeks I've seen: A Tai Chi training program that promises to get you ripped like someone on steroids a superhero in 20 days....
While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st...
one of the many gems of the Getty Center Museum Once again, we took advantage of all the ‘free’ culture that Los Angeles has to offer. The Getty Museum, located at two separate venues, is world-famous, and the estimated 1.8 million...
I’ve always loved the opening scene of the original Mission Impossible. It was set in Prague, and it was the perfect mix of action and intrigue.As luck would have it, I found myself in Prague a couple years ago, and I spent an entire day...
I picked up Red Storm Rising yesterday, and quickly got completely engrossed in it. I have read it, but I was in high school, close to 40 years ago. It was published in 1986.The first section of the book (I’m 150 pages in) is an absolute...
My wife and I run a small law firm in the UK. Originally, we called it decoded:Legal. It made sense at the time, even though quite a few places struggled with the idea that a company name might have a colon in it. We used...
I’ve headed into the big list of drafts in the back end of my website because I’m in the mood for writing blog posts and sharing photos at the moment. This one, in particular, has been over a year in the making, so it’s about time I...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 117-119: Srivijayan dominance of Nusantaria was for a long time bolstered by cooperation with fellow Buddhists in...
A bit past totality (well, 96%-ity, since it wasn’t quite a total lunar eclipse). Still an interesting thing to look up and see. Worldcon going well, I’ve had lunch with a Grand Master and am now off to go sign a bunch of books and then...
My mornings are the time of the day that has changed the most in retirement. I am not woken by an alarm and I spend it slowly drinking coffee while I catch up on the world. I am able to spend the entire morning outside on the patio if I...
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